Overview of textual field types

Description

Collection: Drupal 8 Site BuildingChapter: How to set up content types, create content and create simple views

The number of fields available for content types is both exciting and possibly overwhelming. Here we break down the different text-based fields by their properties and pick one to use for our "requirements" data.

Transcript

Now the one other thing that we need to match with our wire frame are the requirements. So let's add a field for that. Here we have the option to select from a number of different field types.

We'll explore many of these throughout the series, but the names of most of them are pretty straight forward. What we're looking for here is some textual content that's long. So let's look at our options for text.

We have plain, long. Plain just means that it's plain text and it won't use any wizzy wave or formatting to present the content. Long means that it's a text area and not a text field.

A text field is just a single line and a text area is a big box that you can put content in. We have formatted, which means wizzy wave and options for displaying the content. ...

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